Former U.S. agent pleads guilty to bitcoin theft in Silk Road probe [Reuters]

Wed Jul 1, 2015 6:00pm EDT

"A former federal agent pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing bitcoins during the government's investigation of Silk Road, and to secretly soliciting payment from the operator of the online black market for information on its probe."


Full article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/01/us-usa-bitcoin-silkroad-idUSKCN0PB66B20150701?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews



 

 

All the best to you for the future.

Thanks for your invaluable service.

Silk Road website creator gets life term for drug plot

"The accused mastermind behind the Silk Road underground website was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using the digital currency bitcoin.

Ross Ulbricht, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan after a federal jury in February found him guilty of charges including distributing drugs through the Internet and conspiring to commit computer hacking and money laundering."


Full article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/30/us-usa-bitcoin-ulbricht-idUSKBN0OE2IR20150530?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest


 

Absolutely keep us informed please.

Hopefully yet this story might have an ending that isn't simply "scammers disappearing into the night with bitcoins and cash" 

Good luck with it all.

There's no doubt that list of people who have been screwed by the bankruptcy of MtGox/dealings of Karpales is long.

Obviously I cannot help you in anyway at all as I'm thousands of miles away and the people you need to speak with to escalate your claim would be Kraken and/or the MtGox trustee. I wasn't asked for any data from my Yubikey, but I did need it to login to my Kraken account as I had enabled it for two-factor. MtGox I recall used their own similar but different Yubikey for their exchange and as my universal Yubikey didn't work I didn't bother setting up any two-factor with MtGox.

Check the link to the Kraken thread here on the forum (listed above), you'll see that a number of people are having difficulty receiving emails from the MtGox trustee and that if you inform Kraken that you have this or other similar issues, they'll add your name to a list to be taken into consideration when the process shakes out. If that's all you do, at least your name is in the hat and it might buy you some time? You won't be the only person with an 'alternative lifestyle' or 'verification issues' but without sounding trite the onus will still be on you to prosecute your claim with them, you know how officialdom works, if you're not active in the process you tend to get crushed by the gears.

In the meantime, you might strike the mother lode out there in Northern California and all this might just fade away... 






 

Thanks for your reply. By way of clarification I'm in Australia so not subject to any restrictions or difficulties that some people in certain US states might be experiencing.

It was a long while ago when I registered with Kraken but from memory I provided a scanned copy of my passport information page (I recall uploading it through their secure server), my driving licence which has my photo, name and address on it and probably a copy of a recent bank statement (transactions redacted) also confirming my name, address and bank details. I cannot recall whether I had these copies notarised by a Justice of the Peace (I think your equivalent is a Notary Public?) but here it is very easy to get documents notarised free of charge at the local public library.

That was sufficient to verify me to Level 3. Not sure if this information copy/pasted below is visible on the Kraken site if you are not registered with them:

https://www.kraken.com/u/verify

Tier 0
Deposits and withdrawals are not available.    
Deposit       $0.00
Withdraw       $0.00
   
Deposit       $0.00
Withdraw       $0.00
   Account signup    Verified
Tier 1
Deposits and withdrawals are limited to digital currencies only.    
Deposit       $1,000.00
Withdraw       $1,000.00
   
Deposit       $5,000.00
Withdraw       $5,000.00
   

    Full name
    Date of birth
    Country of residence
    Phone number

   Verified
Tier 2*    
Deposit       $2,000.00
Withdraw       $2,000.00
   
Deposit       $10,000.00
Withdraw       $10,000.00
   

    All of the above
    Address verification

   Verified
Tier 3    
Deposit       $20,000.00
Withdraw       $20,000.00
   
Deposit       $100,000.00
Withdraw       $100,000.00
   

    All of the above
    Government issued ID
    Verified proof of residence (e.g., utility bill no more than 3 months old)
    Social Security number (US only)
    ID confirmation photo (Germany only)*


This information is also available from their site:

https://www.kraken.com/u/gox-claim

MtGox Bankruptcy Claims

If you had a balance with MtGox when they went bankrupt, you can file a bankruptcy claim through Kraken. The claim and payout service through Kraken is available in all areas of operation, including all US states.

Creditors claiming funds with Kraken can expect the following benefits:

    100,000 KFEE credits redeemable for up to $1 million in free trading volume at the lowest fee tier of 0.1%
    Creditor claim and payout support including live chat and email
    Option to receive funds in the form of bitcoin
    An easier and more convenient process from claim to payout

Please note that if you don’t file through Kraken and instead elect to make your claim through the alternative system provided by the MtGox trustee, we will not be able to assist you with the failures or problems with their system and will not be liable in any way for the failures or problems with their system.
Claim your MtGox account

Click the button below to get started with your claim. You will be briefly directed to the site provided by the MtGox trustee so you can indicate that you will be filing your claim through Kraken. Then you will be directed back to Kraken to complete your claim on our site. Your Kraken account must be verified to Tier 2 or higher to make a claim. For residents of US states who can only pre-verify their accounts at Tier 2 or higher, this is sufficient to use the claim and payout service through Kraken.


You'd also better investigate this quickly if you're hoping to make a claim, I recall seeing that claims need to be lodged maybe by the 29th April (or 29th May?) but I cannot now seem to confirm that date on any correspondence or accounts I can access. I've been contacted via email by the MtGox trustees who are looking after the bankruptcy claims on and off over the last nine months or so, so I am assuming that you've also received emails from them or if not you can still lodge a claim and provide particulars on the Kraken site or on the MtGox site. I chose to register my claim through Kraken as I've had an account with them for a year or so, they've always been very efficient in my opinion and being verified with them, it makes it easier for me to receive any funds that a successful bankruptcy claim may elicit.

It's also worth checking out the Kraken thread on this forum, Dargo and his team are quite quick to respond:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=290799.0;topicseen


Good luck with it all.

I just completed the MtGox Bankruptcy Claim via the Kraken website and I'm sure I'm not the only person who has filed a claim over the past week or so.

It was a relatively straightforward process, although I was a bit hazy about which bank account information I supplied to MtGox as part of the verification process, but other than that, it was pretty standard and pleasingly quick.

It took me back to the days when the price was getting hammered, fear was rampant and then the seemingly inevitable failure of Gox occurred. I also remembered a YouTube song from the time, googled it and found it still up but with only 46000 hits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ku1A5Ox8U

I'm not saying it is a great musical composition, but I do say that it has stuck in my head as a memory relating to the Gox incident which followed other chaos including Bitfunder going under and TradeFortress collapsing.

Just wondering how many other folks are filing the MtGox claim form and what memories they might recall from those dark days?

 

Maybe read this:


Just a thought

Probably doing another post purge on their thread or trying to figure out more ways to steal cash and bitcoins from people.

 

Just logged in after a week to find about seven of my posts on the Blackarrow thread deleted [again].

The bulk post deletions of the Blackarrow swindlers are what prompted the forum owner to resurrect all those deleted posts, open this thread and place them here for all to see.

As I said on a now deleted thread earlier, I am really looking forward to seeing criminal prosecutions of those responsible for international fraud and theft of cash and bitcoins by Blackarrow.

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On a slightly different note, it is surprising to read that supposed outstanding BA products ordered will be destroyed. This has got to be the most public destruction of doorstops in history! 

Good to hear. There's rumours around that Devcoin has ceased to be operational, glad that's not the case.

 

Yes, we speculated that it was completely unlikely that Mastercard would have any relationship with small fry when they are payment masters of the universe. If they want something done in that space they'll do it themselves not risk any brand damage or delegate any control to two-bit operators.



 

This^

 

I think what is really being said there is, 'Buy it from anywhere else if you can, otherwise prepare for the worst as there's a very high chance of you being ripped.'

 

Unfortunately that's the reality of the situation.

 

Yeah really, you would think that would be material information required to be disclosed by law... oh wait, it is.

When the law catches up with those boys, they're going to be torn a new one.

 

Accused Silk Road operator convicted on U.S. drug charges

"(Reuters) - The suspected mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road was convicted on narcotics and other charges on Wednesday for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was found guilty by a Manhattan federal jury on all seven counts he faced after a closely watched four-week trial spilling out of U.S. investigations of the use of the bitcoin digital currency for drug trafficking and other crimes."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/04/us-usa-bitcoin-trial-idUSKBN0L82H920150204?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

 

Unfortunately it is hard to resist the conclusion that the point of total disaster has already been reached.

It will be interesting to see what happens when one DVC is not even regarded as being worth one satoshi. For my money, we're already there.

Hopefully creative ideas come to the fore and more positive times lie ahead.

 

So for those people who aren't interested in reading a whole discussion which includes a few supposed 'names' and plenty of 'no names', what's the point you're trying to make?

Just be clear, don't link or quote the world, there's people here who're trying to make there own mind up on the issue raised in the title of this thread. You're pretty articulate when you want to be Jim, don't make the world zone out and miss the import of your meaning by linking to crappolla, just say what you want to say directly, we'll understand.

 


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Just by way of observation, this quotation from your supposed 'trust' rating:

"Slark 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-12-05   0.00000000   Reference   This user is a serial shill. Caught using 4 accounts to promote GAW while taking advantage of their signature campaign.

Known shill accounts:

Slark
Hazir
maku
Snorek"


You know damn well I wouldn't trust you as far as I could throw you, you shilled for months on how good Black Arrow were and there's now about 400 pages of discrediting information on BA on this forum, even the Bitcointalk forum owner Theymos resurrected deleted information on BA due to their unconscionable scamming practices:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=774278.0

Disregard anything this shill cocksucker has to say and don't make the mistake of thinking I'll be spending time reinforcing my perspective, you've been a known asshole for well over a year, so post your rebuttals which I'll ignore and get on with your shallow shill life.

New users, ignore this asshole, he can be articulate and artful when he wants to be, but he's a known apologist for scammers, charlatans and fraudsters.

Yes Jimmothy, you can shut the fuck up and go fuck off, no point in you joining this thread now.


 














"No, you show me your tits."

If you want closure you'll just have to walk away... or contact your lawyers to put some hurt on them.

Most people posting on this thread want to see a lot of hurt